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29 6. DROUGHT RESISTANT rought resistant once they're established. They’re described thus because they Dhave the vigour to find water, not because they can survive without it : Acacia - Agave - Aloe - Arbutus - Aucuba - Carpobrotus - Ceanothus - Chamaerops - Cordyline australis - Cupressus sempervirens - Cistus - Dasylirion - Echeveria - Echium fastuosum - Ephedra - Eriobotrya - Eucalyptus - Fremontodendron - Furcraea - Ficus - Genista - Iris japonica - Lyonothamnus - Mahonia - Olea - Opuntia - Phillyrea - Pinus pinea - Pittosporum tobira - Rosmarinus - Sempervivum - Tamarix - Viburnum tinus - Yucca 7. ESSENTIALS hese are some of the plants that have that certain 'something' - a distinctive Tquality all of their own - strong shape, beautiful texture and they're easy to grow. Sparing you any more pretentious descriptions - they happen to be my favourites : Agave - Arbutus - Chamaerops - Cordyline - Dicksonia - Echium pininiana - Eriobotrya - Eucalyptus - Euphorbia mellifera - Genista aetnensis - Hedychium 'Tara' - Hebe parviflora angustifolia - Lomatia ferruginea - Lyonothamnus - Musa basjoo - Phillyrea latifolia - Pinus montezumae - Pinus pinea - Podocarpus salignus - Pseudosasa japonica - Tetrapanax - Trachycarpus fortunei - Yucca aloifolia - Yucca gloriosa variegata 8. GOOD IN DENSE DAMP SHADE ear water, under trees, the sort of microclimate with high humidity in the air - Nnot in the ground (i.e. not in a bog) : Astelia - Crocosmia - Fatsia - Fatshedera - Ferns - Gunnera - Hedera - Lithocarpus - Luzula - Mitraria - Myrtus apiculata - Muehlenbeckia - Pileostegia - Podocarpus macrophyllus - Ruscus - Sasa - Trachycarpus - Yucca floribunda - Zantedeschia 9. GOOD IN DRY SHADE he most frequent request and the most difficult to answer. These have got to be Tvery tough indeed. The Hebe deserves a special honourable mention as the most outstanding performer in this situation - an extraordinary plant : Astelia - Aucuba - Danae - Ephedra - Hedera - Hebe parviflora angustifolia - Helleborus - Prunus laurocerasus - Ruscus - Yucca floribunda 10. FAIRLY GOOD IN POTS f a plant's going to succeed in a pot, it's either got to be slow growing or it's got Ito be clipped - so there's a constant relationship between the size of the roots and the amount of foliage. Topiaryis the obvious answer. Fast growing plants that attempt to grow unchecked will not look good in a pot for more than a few months and others just hate being in a pot anyway. Try these : Aeonium - Agapanthus - Agave - Aloe - Astelia - Butia - Buxus (clipped) - Chamaerops - Cycas - Eucomis - Euonymus (clipped) - Fascicularia - Fatsia - Geranium maderense - Ilex (clipped) - Ilex perado - Laurus nobilis (clipped) - Libertia - Ligustrum delavayi (clipped) - Olea (clipped) - Phoenix - Phormium - Pittosporum tobira (clipped) - Prunus laurocerasus (clipped) - Prunus lusitanica (clipped) - Pseudopanax (all species) - Puya - Rosmarinus (clipped) - Viburnum tinus (clipped) - Yucca - Zantedeschia ust because a plant is 'hardy' in the ground - it doesn't mean it will survive being J frozen solid in a pot for a month. If plants are moved under cover for the winter, they'll be fine. 'Cover' means conservatory, greenhouse, garage or shed. If you feel you’ve detected a certain luke-warmness about the subject of plants in pots, you’d be right. We’re not keen. Plants grow in the ground - not in pots. 11. FAIRLY GOOD IN POTS WHEN IT'S LIKE BAFFIN ISLAND OUTSIDE f you live in a cold bit and you're not prepared to move the pots even when the Icold becomes severe (although, of course, you could so easily with one of our Barrows) you're rather limited to choice, but these do reasonably well : Aucuba - Buxus sempervirens - Ilex aquifolium - Phillyrea - Prunus laurocerasus - Prunus lusitanica - Sasa - Trachycarpus - Yucca recurva 12. GOOD IN WET SPOTS ot quite a bog but getting on that way. This would include the margins of rivers, Nstreams and ponds. We prefer to call it a ‘high water table’: Acorus - Arundo - Bamboo - Crocosmia - Cyperus - Drimys - Eucalyptus aggregata - Gunnera - Luzula - Myrtus apiculata - Phormium - Taxodium - Trachycarpus - Zantedeschia 13. GOOD ON CHALK any plants will tolerate a high soil pH (very alkaline), some will do quite well Mwith a regular dose of sequestered iron, but these are perfectly happy on a thin soil over pure chalk : Agapanthus - Agave - Arbutus andrachnoides - Asplenium scolopendrium - Aucuba - Baccharis - Bamboo - Ceanothus - Clematis - Daphne - Eleagnus - Euonymus - Euphorbia - Genista - Helleborus - Laurus - Ligustrum - Phillyrea - Prunus lusitanicus - Rhus - Rosmarinus - Viburnum - Yucca 14. GROUND COVER lants that can be used to cover the ground to no more than a couple of feet. PSome will spread naturally, some will need to be planted in quantity. Don’t think that ground cover plants will suppress weeds. They just make weeding harder : Acorus - Agapanthus - Aloe aristata - Asplenium - Astelia - Blechnum - Carpobrotus - Clematis - Crocosmia - Danae - Ephedra - Euonymus 'Kewensis' - Fascicularia - Fatshedera - Hedera - Holboellia - Hydrangea seemannii - Lampranthus - Luzula - Mitraria - Muehlenbeckia - Ophiopogon - Pileostegia - Pteris - Rosmarinus 'Repens' - Ruscus - Sempervivum - Vitis - Woodwardia
30 15. HEDGES mall leafed plants can be cut with a hedge trimmer, large leafed plants will need Sto be clipped with greater care with a pair of secateurs : Choisya - Bamboo - Eleagnus - Euonymus japonicus - Griselinia - Hebe parviflora - Lonicera - Phillyrea - Pittosporum - Podocarpus salignus - Prunus lusitanicus - Quercus ilex - Rhamnus - Tamarix - Viburnum 16. JUNGLY & TROPICAL nfortunately we can't string you a line about how parky it gets in Barbados and Uhow a number of Caribbean plants will do just fine in Surrey. It never gets even slightly parky in Barbados and there are absolutely no Caribbean plants that have the remotest chance of lasting more than a summer in Surrey. These only look like they come from Barbados : Agave - Arundo - Aspidistra - Bamboo - Chamaerops - Clematis armandii - Cordyline - Dicksonia - Echium pininiana - Eriobotrya - Fascicularia - Fatsia - Fatshedera - Gunnera - Hedera - Hedychium - Holboellia - Magnolia - Melianthus - Muehlenbeckia - Musa - Paulownia - Phormium - Podocarpus - Prunus laurocerasus - Pseudopanax - Sasa - Tetrapanax - Trachelospermum - Vitis - Woodwardia - Yucca - Zantedeschia 17. LIME HATERS hese won't tolerate any lime in the soil. Some plants are lime dislikers rather Tthan haters and can grow on slightly alkaline soil if treated with sequestered iron. Albizzia -Acacia - Azalea - Blechnum spicant - Callistemon - Camelia - Grevillea - Lithocarpus - Lomatia - Magnolia macrophylla - Mitraria - Nothofagus - Pieris - Pinus patula - Quercus myrsinifolia - Trachelospermum 18. LONG LASTING FLOWERS hese have flowers that last weeks and weeks rather than days and days - often Tflowering more than once a year : Aloe - Arbutus - Beschorneria - Clematis cirrhosa - Cortaderia - Fatsia - Echeveria - Eucomis - Fremontodendron - Libertia - Ligustrum - Myrtus apiculata - Trachelospermum - Trachycarpus - Viburnum 19. MEDITERRANEAN ost people visit the Mediterranean during the summer and may not be aware Mhow, apart from the coastal regions, winter temperatures can get as low as in Britain. Many of the plants we associate with the Mediterranean, grow well in this country and with their toughness, a Mediterranean Garden is easy to create : Acacia - Aeonium - Agapanthus - Agave - Albizia julibrissin - Arbutus - Arundo - Beschorneria - Butia - Callistemon - Ceanothus - Chamaerops - Cistus - Citrus - Cordyline - Cupressus sempervirens - Cycas revoluta - Dasylirion - Echeveria - Echium - Eriobotrya - Eryngium - Eucalyptus - Euphorbia - Fremontodendron - Genista - Grevillea - Hedera - Hedychium - Kniphofia - Lyonothamnus - Magnolia - Melianthus - Musa - Myrtus - Olea - Opuntia - Phillyrea - Phoenix - Pinus pinea - Puya - Quercus ilex - Quercus suber - Rosmarinus - Strelitzia - Tamarix - Tetrapanax - Trachycarpus - Yucca 20. PLANTS FOR FROST FREE CONSERVATORIES ur own and our customers' experience of growing things in conservatories don't O entirely coincide with the image often portrayed by conservatory manufacturers and glossy magazines - that they create an ideal environment in which exotic plants will thrive. Many conservatories are ill ventilated and over exposed to the sun, making a hostile, rather than an ideal environment, for plants. The plants dislike it and the bugs love it - an often disastrous cocktail. Despite this, we feel we can accommodate these problems by giving sound advice on the best plants, names of suppliers of Biological Pest Controls and other useful tips : Acacia - Aeonium - Agapanthus - Butia - Canna - Colocasia - Cordyline - Cycas - Cyperus - Echeveria - Fascicularia - Furcraea Geranium - Hedychium - Musa - Olea - Pittosporum tobira - Phoenix - Puya - Trachelospermum 21. PLANTS FOR MASKING HIDEOUS VIEWS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE creening plants. Something we get asked for an awful lot. Often asked with a Snote of desperation. For 'Hideous view', more often than not, we regret to report, read 'Neighbour'. Whither the milk of human kindness and chummy neighbourliness? Fast growing, fairly tall and evergreen : Arundo (not evergreen but big and alarmingly fast - for desperados) - Bamboo - Eucalyptus - Hebe parviflora angustifolia - Ligustrum lucidum - Pinus species - Sequoia 22. PLANTS THAT CAN HAVE ARCHITECTURE THRUST UPON THEM hat can this phrase that sounds so highly suspect mean? Left to their own Wdevices, some plants will grow into sprawling, shapeless messes. Ruthless pruning can produce standard, single or multitrunked and extremely architectural little trees. Not only is this great fun but the difference can be dramatic - rather pedestrian little shrubs blossom into distinguished and dignified little trees of great character. The room for experimentation is massive but here are some suggestions of ones we've tried: Aralia - Arbutus - Ceanothus - Eriobotrya - Euonymus - Fatsia - Genista aetnensis - Griselinia - Laurus nobilis 'angustifolia ' - Ligustrum lucidum - Lithocarpus - Magnolia grandiflora - Myrtus apiculata - Osmanthus yunnanensis - Phillyrea latifolia - Pinus pinea - Pittosporum - Poncirus - Prunus laurocerasus - Prunus lusitanica - Rhamnus - Rhus - Tamarix - Viburnum tinus
Page 1 and 2: THE NURSERY & THE PLANTS Pages 3 -
Page 3 and 4: 2 Istarted this business 20 years a
Page 5 and 6: 4 Aeonium arboreum 'Magnificum' red
Page 7 and 8: 6 Ceanothus azureus 'Concha' green
Page 9 and 10: 8 Eryngium pandanifolium amber Lots
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Page 13 and 14: 12 Paulownia tomentosa green Foxglo
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